A fun and accurate color picker for the real world

Swatches is an iOS app that lets you collect, inspect and share the colors that inspire you in your daily life. If you've ever wanted to paint a wall a true sky blue or color a logo with your favorite flower, Swatches is for you.

App Store

Free

Abduzeedo

We're happy to share the news of a colorful new app launch today on Abduzeedo called Swatches, a color picker for the real world. Have you ever tried to start a painting project and got

Curbed

A new wave of intelligent vision apps may change how you see design, from recognizing fonts to rearranging virtual furniture. The latest addition to this digital arsenal is Swatches, a free iOS app that parses the data from your phone camera to create live color swatches. But the best part is its color-identification system.

Apartment Therapy

You never know when color inspiration will strike-and we can pretty much guarantee it won't happen while you're nervously sweating, staring down the paint chips in your local hardware store. Thankfully, there's a new app, Swatches, that turns the gorgeous rainbow-filled world around you into your own personal color catalog.

🎨 A color picker for people who live in their 📝 text editor

.colors() allows you to paste any code you like to quickly figure out the color palette that's hidden in it. Whether it be CSS, JS, or whatever else. As long as there's a CSS-compatible color in there, the tool will gather it for you.